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"Last Resort"


House Episode Number: 9

House Season: 5

Original Air Date: November 25, 2008

Writer: Matthew V. Lewis

Director: Katie Jacobs

Special Guest(s): Zeljko Ivanek as Jason; Wood Harris as Bowman; Tracy Vilar as Nurse Regina; Evan Peters as Oliver; Sarah Thompson as Nikki; Alex Sol as Larry; Natasha Gregson Wagner as Sandra; Evan Jones as Bill; Marcus Chait as Mitch; Jack Guzman as Security Guard #1



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House M.D. Episode Synopsis

A gun-wielding man from the waiting room at the Princeton-Plainsboro clinic takes House, Thirteen and several patients from the waiting room hostage in Cuddy’s office. The man claims to be sick with a long undiagnosed illness and demands medical attention from the best doctor in the hospital, threatening to kill any hostages necessary along the way. With a room full of already sick patients, House must use them as guinea pigs to assure the hostage-taker that the medications he is administering to him are legitimate. As Cuddy and the rest of House’s team communicate with House over the phone to run tests and offer possible diagnoses, they ponder the possibility that the hostage-taker has nothing physically wrong with him and that everyone in Cuddy’s office could wind up dead. With one hostage already shot, Thirteen wagers her own already diminished health as she simultaneously receives the experimental treatments the hostage is receiving. Her life lies in danger as House’s own determination to diagnose the hostage-taker threatens to thwart the SWAT team’s plan to put an end to the standoff.

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House M.D. Medical File Folder

HOUSE EPISODE'S MEDICAL MYSTERY: PATIENT OF THE WEEK (POTW)

Location of incident: Cuddy's office
Name / occupation / age / sex of POTW: Jason/unemployed/?/male
POTW symptom(s):
  • Shortness of breath
  • Fatigue rashes
  • Palpitations
  • Insomnia
Team mis-diagnoses:
  • pulmonary scleroderma
  • Cancer
  • Cushing's disease
House team's rule violation(s) / ethical breaches:
House's "Aha!" moment:
POTW final diagnosis: melioidosis (Whitmore's disease)
Other / clinic patient(s): none


House M.D. Episode Best Moments

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House M.D. Episode's Best Quotes

    HOUSE MD QUOTES
    • Jason: Excuse me, i'm looking for Dr.Cuddy. House: Well, she's either not here or she's under the desk. Either way you're gonna have to wait outside until i'm finished.





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    #1hotchfan Discuss Last Resort here (page: 1 2) 27 Dec 3 2008, 1:30 AM EST by littlesully
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    shibbylord How could House be so inhumane? 2 Nov 29 2008, 3:51 PM EST by justjosie
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    Last Resort is absolutely shocking. House just letting 13 die... What is going on?
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    jchristi22 "Last Resort" episode 5.09 9 Nov 19 2008, 8:02 PM EST by housemdkt
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    Episode 5.09 - Last Resort - "HOUSE executive producer Katie Jacobs directs an all-new extended episode, guest-starring recent Emmy Award winner Zeljko Ivanek. A man (guest star Ivanek) willing to kill ­ or die ­ for a diagnosis takes House, Thirteen (Olivia Wilde) and several patients from the hospital waiting room hostage in Cuddy¹s office. With one person shot, other patients needing medical attention, Thirteen being used as a guinea pig and the SWAT team closing in, House is determined to end the standoff the only way he knows how: by coming up with the right diagnosis."

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